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When you mix a researcher, a massive online encyclopedia and a supercomputer, the result is a collection of insights and visualizations into what Wikipedia looks like mapped across time and space. In a partnership with high-end computing vendor SGI, University of Illinois researcher Kalev Leetaru was able to mine the entire corpus of Wikipedia posts and make some interesting discoveries along the way.If there’s a report detailing Leetaru’s findings, I haven’t been able to find it, but even this snippet from the project’s Facebook page is pretty insightful:From this analysis, Wikipedia is seen to have four periods of growth in its historical coverage: 1001-1500 (Midd[...]